Joe Stevens & Luis Antero - Seaside Sounds (GFR 035)

Artist: Joe Stevens & Luis Antero (England/Portugal)
Title: Seaside Sounds

Time: 38:40
Style: Field Recordings
Date: February 2012
Label: Green Field Recordings
Artwork: Rui Almeida/GFR
Original Photos: Joe Stevens/Luis Antero
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JOE STEVENS I LUlS ANTERO

SEASIDE SOUNDS

01. Joe Stevens - Waymouth Carnival (Dorset, UK, 2011) (17:59)

This recording was captured as part of Joe's ongoing survey of the sounds of the seaside
and was captured during Weymouth carnival, 2011. We start with biplanes flying across
Weymouth bay, followed be Punch & Judy and then time in an amusement arcade. Next
we hear the red arrows display team, ending with some fireworks. Recorded on Sony

PCM-D50 using a rode NT4.

For me the sounds of the seaside are some of my favourite sounds and include:
the general chatter of people close together on the beach, all mixed with the
waves and seagulls screeching. The sound of families playing together, re-
connecting. Of children shouting and screaming, and the sound of laughter.

Further explorations and notes can be found on
http :// soundsof seaside .tumblr.com

About Joe Stevens

The key field of activity for Joe is public space. His artworks concern
themselves with how people move and act in the public domain and how the
personal realm relates to this. Using sound, photographs, video and writing, to
testify how we use public space; how we move through it, sit in it, lounge or
conduct ourselves in it, and above all how we relate to other people and objects.

My main motivations is to make sense of the world around us and to help serve
as my visual memory. Whether it is exploring personal memories or looking at
how we relate to our surroundings or simply looking more closely at the objects
and spaces around us. Through field recordings, the listeners can experience the
sound of places that they might never be able to visit. That is not only a quality

of a field recording but also of photography - both record media can easily
comple-ment one another. Their authenticity is not as important as their prospect
of recording moments, atmospheres, noises and images and making them
accessible, so that people can visualise a place they did not know. The new
experiences and discoveries inspire people and make them "see" their world in a

different way.

02. Luis Antero - Domingo de Pesca (Praia da Tocha, Portugal, 2010)

(20:41)

"A Arte-Xavega, pesca artesanal tambem conhecida por pesca de "arrasto", e ainda
hoje uma realidade na Praia da Tocha. A Arte-xavega remonta ao seculo XIX,
tempo em que os Pescadores saiam de barco para lanfar as redes ao mar. De
regresso da faina, as redes eram retiradas do mar para a costa com a ajuda de juntas
de bois, bem como de uma multidao de homens e mulheres que colaboravam nesta
dura tarefa de estender e puxar a rede pelo areal e dela retirar todo o peixe."

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Num domingo de julho de 2010, na companhia da farmlia, pude assistir ao vivo a
nobre arte de pescar descrita acima. Embora os bois sejam agora substituidos por
tratores, o espirito mantem-se incolume. Dezenas de homens, mulheres e crian9as
ajudam na tarefa de separar o peixe fresco e acabado de pescar para as caixas

respetivas.

A narrativa sonora que aqui se apresenta espeiha esta realidade ainda presente da

Arte-Xavega, ao mesmo tempo que presta homenagem a todos os homens e
mulheres que trabalham no mar e que dele dependem para a sua sobrevivencia.
Atraves do som evoca-se, tambem, a memoria.

(recolhas efetuadas com um gravador digital Zoom H4)

"The Art-Xavega, also known as fishing "trawl" is still a reality in Tocha beach, in
central Portugal. The Art-Xavega dates back to the nineteenth century, at which time the
fishermen go out by boat to cast their nets into the sea. After returning from the labors,
the networks were removed from sea to shore with the help of oxen, and a crowd of men
and women who collaborated in this tough task to extend the network and pull it
through sand and remove all the fish."

One Sunday in July 2010, in the company of family, I could watch live the noble art of

fishing described above. Although the cattle are now replaced by tractors, the spirit
remains unscathed. Dozens of men, women and children help in the task of separating

the fresh fish for the respective boxes.

The sound narrative presented here reflects this reality still present Art-Xavega, while
paying tribute to all men and women who work at sea and on which it depends for its

survival. Evoked by sound is also memory.

(recorded with a Zoom H4 digital recorder)

(google translator)

About Luis Antero

Luis Antero is a field recordist from Portugal, curator of the netlabel Green Field
Recordings and the radio program O Colecionador de Sons
( www.ocoleccionadordesons.volasite.com) . His mainly goal in the field
recordings universe is to record, preserve and disseminate the collective sound
memory of the areas of Beira Serra and Serra da Estrela in Portugal.

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